66 · Survey Results: Survey Questions And Responses
Depends on what type of collection.
Discreteness keyword searching searching across collections original order.
Do not want to lose information kept by researcher (records creator used folder level).
Does the folder contain unique enough content to provide an access point that distinguishes it from other folders?
Done for all.
Ease of processing staffing size of collection arrangement.
Factors checked above are constantly applied against all levels.
Folder level description must suffice to provide patrons with a detailed account of the folder contents and its relation to
the collection as a whole.
For collections of personal, historical, or literary papers.
For not so rare material that we anticipate would be of significant research value.
Funding pressing needs (administrative/faculty/political priority) size.
Homogeneity of folder contents.
Ideally, the level for all collections, but not always realistic provides more information for researchers.
If the content of each folder is homogenous, item level is not provided.
If we only provide folder level, in some ways it is seen as less than providing series and folder level because folder level
only is usually when little other arrangement or description has occurred and we are using the creator’s description.
Folder level in conjunction with series is seen as more of a map to a collection, assuming a good bit of discovery and the
decision of relevance has occurred from reading the series (or similar grouping) descriptions.
Importance of materials and anticipated use.
Items enclosed must have a more or less natural “place” in series and over-all collection.
Maintaining original order.
Meaningful folder descriptions, heterogeneity.
Original order literary collections.
Our default level for modern collections.
Our standard level of processing.
Our usual level.
Patron access and value of the collection content needs are usually the most important factor in determining the
processing level.
Patron access needs and homogeneity of the collection.
Patron access needs based on size of collection since most of our large collections are stored off-site, they all have
container lists more detailed folder-level descriptions are done for historically significant correspondents titles of
writings for literary manuscripts.
Depends on what type of collection.
Discreteness keyword searching searching across collections original order.
Do not want to lose information kept by researcher (records creator used folder level).
Does the folder contain unique enough content to provide an access point that distinguishes it from other folders?
Done for all.
Ease of processing staffing size of collection arrangement.
Factors checked above are constantly applied against all levels.
Folder level description must suffice to provide patrons with a detailed account of the folder contents and its relation to
the collection as a whole.
For collections of personal, historical, or literary papers.
For not so rare material that we anticipate would be of significant research value.
Funding pressing needs (administrative/faculty/political priority) size.
Homogeneity of folder contents.
Ideally, the level for all collections, but not always realistic provides more information for researchers.
If the content of each folder is homogenous, item level is not provided.
If we only provide folder level, in some ways it is seen as less than providing series and folder level because folder level
only is usually when little other arrangement or description has occurred and we are using the creator’s description.
Folder level in conjunction with series is seen as more of a map to a collection, assuming a good bit of discovery and the
decision of relevance has occurred from reading the series (or similar grouping) descriptions.
Importance of materials and anticipated use.
Items enclosed must have a more or less natural “place” in series and over-all collection.
Maintaining original order.
Meaningful folder descriptions, heterogeneity.
Original order literary collections.
Our default level for modern collections.
Our standard level of processing.
Our usual level.
Patron access and value of the collection content needs are usually the most important factor in determining the
processing level.
Patron access needs and homogeneity of the collection.
Patron access needs based on size of collection since most of our large collections are stored off-site, they all have
container lists more detailed folder-level descriptions are done for historically significant correspondents titles of
writings for literary manuscripts.
